SPEAKER'S RULING: Min. Correct Record re: QP Response (Pt. of Order by Hon. C. d'Entremont [Hansard p. 4627, 11/30/12]) Not a Point of Order - Disagreement between two members over facts

HON. CHRISTOPHER D'ENTREMONT: Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Yesterday during Oral Question Period the Minister of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism referenced a rating from the CFIB regarding tax competitiveness. He referred to the rating as "the facts." The minister failed to table the document in question and I've been unable to find it, even after checking with the CFIB's Web site.

MR. KEITH BAIN: Madam Speaker, it's great to be able to stand to actually talk about the bill for a minute, if we could. The fact that a government has to bribe companies to come to our province is a sign that our economy is sick.

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MR. CLARRIE MACKINNON : Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. The terminology "bribe" in this House is just not acceptable. It's not parliamentary.

MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you. The honourable member for Victoria-The Lakes.

MR. BAIN: I will withdraw that word, Madam Speaker.

MR. SPEAKER: That is your third resolution and that resolution is out of order. You're only permitted two per day. Thank you very much.

MR. CHUCK PORTER: Madam Speaker, I guess I'll get a few minutes to talk today on something very important to Nova Scotians - more so than wasting our time in this Legislature talking about absolutely nothing. I've never heard so much verbal sewage flowing in all my life as I have from that member over there.

MADAM SPEAKER: Order, please. I would ask the member to retract as those are unparliamentary.

MR. PORTER: Unparliamentary?

MADAM SPEAKER: Yes siree, Bob.

HON. CHRISTOPHER D'ENTREMONT: Mr. Speaker, I stand on a point of order, in accordance with Rule No. 30(1) in regard to written questions.

Last session we submitted a number of questions. As you can see on the order paper, there are still about 36 of them that have not been answered yet, and I am just wondering, what is the response time on a question like that for written questions? I was wondering if maybe you could use your office to maybe push that one forward just a little bit, and I want to see what your response on that would be.

HON. KEITH COLWELL: So, Madam Speaker, I'm going to wrap up my comments with that and the final thing I'm going to say is this government has done a crappy job of looking after the government.

MADAM SPEAKER: Order. I would ask the member to withdraw that last remark. It is unparliamentary.

MR. COLWELL: I will do that and I will change it to . . .

MADAM SPEAKER: Just withdraw it.

MR. COLWELL: . . . doing a very poor job of looking after Nova Scotians.

MR. MAT WHYNOTT: Mr. Speaker, glad to rise again and speak for a few moments on this resolution before us. Of course as we know, it's a bunch of hogwash but it's there on paper and I think it's something that we do need to debate in this House, this historic Chamber.

MR. SPEAKER: Honourable member, I believe "hogwash" might be on the line of unparliamentary language. It has a relation to another animal so you have to be very careful.

The honourable member for Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville.

MR. BAILLIE: So my question to the Premier is, who is this new bogeyman so intent on screwing the forests of Nova Scotia that he is using to try to justify another $100 million in bailout money? (Interruptions)

MR. SPEAKER: I was just going to say that that word is definitely unparliamentary. (Interruptions)

Mr. GORDIE GOSSE: Unfortunately, the attitude of the Leader of the Official Opposition - he thinks this is funny and I think it is just the ignorance and inexperience of the Leader of the Official Opposition where he refuses to understand the real prospects for long-term employment for the province and he should be congratulating Irving, IBM, PROJEX, all of the companies that are coming here to Nova Scotia to build our future.